I had a class during the May mini session. It was only for four weeks, class every day (monday thru friday). Anyway, I got an A in the class, and made a 100 on the final. I thought that was cool. I'm glad it's over.
I finished doing the genotyping and started my internship doing cancer research. So far it's okay, a lot of cell culture and that sort of thing. I haven't done any of that since the internship I had one summer in college (5 years ago). I'm working with cells and large volumes. Not used to that. For the past several years I've worked with very small volumes and DNA. But it's nice to have a change. Besides, I think I mastered the other stuff I did. Time for a new challenge.
I got a cat, not sure if I really announced that in anything other than some pics. I named him Iggy. Got him from the humane society. He purrs really loudly and it doesn't take much to make him purr. Don't even have to touch him to get him to purr. He's super playful and has finally gotten used to my mother's yappy little dogs. He even plays with them, really rough play, too. My niece likes to pick him up, and of course she does it all wrong. She picks him up and carries him by his head, tried his tail once, had him in a choke hold at least once. He's finally learned to use his claws, so maybe she'll stop trying to pick him up once he scratches her. That hasn't happened yet, so we just all tell her to not pick up the cat, repeatedly say this but I'mpretty sure she ignores everything we tell her to do anyway.
Neko has started sneezing a lot. I'm worried about her. I hope it won't get worse, and that it won't spread to Jenny, too. I've wondered if it was because I didn't keep their cage clean enough. The mouse cage got some little bugs, I cleaned it really well when I noticed. That poor little mouse is so old now, I think he's actually past 3 years old. That's the usual lifespan of a mouse, 3 years. He's still healthy though, no palpable tumors and he's still plump. His fur doesn't look so great, and he has a bald spot, but I don't think those are related to any illness. The guinea pigs are fine, they're both fat.
I got a laptop this week. I've never had a laptop before. I think it will be good for school. I just need to get SAS installed on it, and then I'll have a really useful machine. I'm still getting used to it. It's a Dell inspiron.
Not much else is happening. I finally made an appointment with the psychiatrist and the psychologist. I haven't really used the book they recommended, and I honestly haven't spent much time thinking about myself. I don't even remember most of what happened since last December when I saw them last. I'm sure there were some tough times, but I think I stayed too busy to dwell on anything.
I bought some new sandals, I like them. They're black leather wedges. I also finally got this silk top from Anthropologie that I liked. It was marked way down, and there was one in my size available. I ordered it as soon as I saw it. I also got another pair of wedges because they were also marked way down. I think I paid less than half the original price for both items. That's pretty good considering all their stuff is overpriced. I even got a dress from Urban Outfitters. Not sure when I'll wear it. I think I'll wash it first to get some of the creases out of it from being packaged. I got a pretty little bird necklace from them too, I really like it. It's a little bigger than I expected though.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone really cared what clothes I bought recently. I think I'm handling the anxiety well enough, but I haven't really had a lot of contact with people until now. Now there are new people I have to be around, and that's not always easy, even if they are nice. But I think I'm doing okay.
